2000_Cleveland_Browns_season

2000 Cleveland Browns season

2000 Cleveland Browns season

52nd season in franchise history

The 2000 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 48th season with the National Football League and 52nd overall. It was the second season of the "New Browns", which returned to the NFL in 1999.

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Kicker Phil Dawson was the Browns’ leading scorer with 59 points.[1] The Browns total offense ranked 31st (last) in the league, while their total defense ranked 26th in the league.[2] The 2000 Browns’ 161 points scored (10.06 per game) is the third-fewest ever by a team in a 16-game schedule, tied with the 1998 Eagles and behind the 1992 Seahawks and 1991 Colts.[3] Additionally, their four games without scoring is the most in the NFL since the 1977 Buccaneers failed to score six times;[4] by contrast the 2016 and 2017 Browns went a combined 1–31 but never failed to score a point in any game. The 1999 Browns scored 217 points, or 3.50 more per game than in 2000.

Offseason

2000 NFL draft

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Personnel

Staff

2000 Cleveland Browns staff

Front office

  • Owner and chairman – Alfred Lerner
  • President and chief executive officer – Carmen Policy
  • Executive vice president/director of football operations – Dwight Clark
  • Executive director of player personnel – Joe Collins
  • Director of college personnel – Phil Neri
  • Director of pro personnel – Keith Kidd

Head coaches

Offensive coaches

 Defensive coaches

Special teams coaches

  • Special teams – Mark Michaels
  • Special teams/defensive assistant – Jon Fabris

Strength and conditioning

  • Head strength and conditioning – Tim Jorgensen
  • Assistant strength/pass rush consultant – Joe Kim

Final roster

2000 Cleveland Browns final roster
Quarterbacks

Running backs

Wide receivers

Tight ends

 Offensive linemen

Defensive linemen

 Linebackers

Defensive backs

Special teams

 Reserve lists


Practice squad

  • 49 Kyle Allamon TE
  • 70 Steve Estes T
  • 48 Rod Monroe TE
  • 12 Drew O'Connor WR
  • 47 Rashon Spikes RB


Rookies in italics
 53 active, 15 inactive, 5 practice squad

Preseason

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Regular season

Schedule

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Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Standings

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Game summaries

Week 6: at Arizona Cardinals

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Week 6: Cleveland Browns at Arizona Cardinals – Game summary

at Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona

  • Date: October 8
  • Game time: 4:15 p.m. EDT
  • Game weather: 87 °F (30.6 °C), relative humidity 25%, wind 15 miles per hour (24 km/h; 13 kn)
  • Game attendance: 44,296
  • Referee: Tom White
  • TV announcers (CBS): Don Criqui (play–by–play) and Steve Tasker (color commentator)
  • Box score

Best performances

  • Tim Couch, Week 3, 316 Passing Yards vs. Pittsburgh Steelers[5]
  • Doug Pederson, Week 15, 309 Passing Yards vs. Philadelphia Eagles[6]

Awards and records

  • Led NFL, yards punted, 4,919 yards[7]

References

  1. [1]
    NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-7611-2480-1, p. 216
  2. [2]
    NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-7611-2480-1, p. 215
  3. [3]
    Pro-Football-Reference.com: In a single season, from 1978 to 2012, in the regular season, sorted by ascending Points For.
  4. [4]
    Pro Football Reference; In a single season, from 1940 to 2018, in the Regular Season, requiring Points For = 0, sorted by most games in season matching criteria
  5. [5]
    NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-7611-2480-1, p. 206
  6. [6]
    NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-7611-2480-1, p. 207
  7. [7]
    NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-7611-2480-1, p. 202


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